Incased receptacle.



No.844,542. I 'PATBNTED FEB. 19, 1907..

' L. B. SGHENGK.

INGASED REGBPTACLE.

APPLICATION PILED O0T.11 1908.

witnesses I I WKWy- LUDWIG B. SOHENCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INCASED FiECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed October 11,1906. Serial No. 338,421.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUDWIG B. ScHENox, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at N ew York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Incased Receptacles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to Whichit ap pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the construction of bottles, jars, or other receptacles, to a protecting casing or hood therefor and the manner of attaching said casing or hood to the receptacle, and to a closure for the receptacle and the manner of securing the same to the receptacle and casing.

It is the object of this invention to provide an inexpensive, simple, and easily assembled device of such a character that the contents of the incased receptacle cannot be readily tampered with without the mutilation and practical destruction of the package, and while the use of a hood or casing has obvious advantages when the incased receptacle is com osed of easily-frangible material, such as g ass or pottery, yet in addition to affording a protection against breaking the casing serves also as a deterrent against alteration of the contents of said incased receptacle, as such case may be so constructed and of such material that it is easily damaged through any attempt to remove the receptacle-closure after the latter has been once applied. As the said hood or casing may be formed of -material upon which advertising matter may be readily printed or embossed it is a further object of my invention to provide simple means for etiiciently attaching the casing to the incased rece tacle independently of the form of receptac e-closure employed, sinceit may be often desirable to employ the hood or casing in connection with a bottle having a stopper of ordinary form.

To accomplish the several objects before noted, I combine with a receptacle an incasing hood and a closure for the receptacle, said receptacle and the hood or case being provided with interlocking means for preventing their disassociation after having been brought into proper relation with each other and said closure engaging the case or hood and also the hood-locking means of the receptacle, and such a construction embodies the main feature of my invention.

There are other minor features of invention, residing in particular combinations and elemental construction, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the drawings chosen for the purpose of illustrating this invention, the scope whereof is pointed out in the claims, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bottle, hood, and closure embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the construction shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the neck portion of the bottle, illustrating the preferred form thereof. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the neck portion of an incasing hood which is adapted for use with the bottle shown. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the construction shown in Fig. 2, taken in the lane of the hood-engaging lugs of the bott e there illustrated. Fig. 6'is a vertical central section of the neck portions of the bottle and hood shown in Fig. 2, but illustrating a modified form of closure for the bottle.

Like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur.

I will now proceed to describe my invention more fully, so that others skilled in the art to which it .appertains may apply the same.

In the drawings, 1 is a receptacle, in the present instance represented as a bottle one end of which is molded smaller than the other to form the neck 2. The bottle 1 is provided with means which engage the incasing hood to prevent its disassociation from the bottle after having been brought into proper relation therewith, saidmeans being preferably formed upon the neck of the bottle and integral therewith. For this purpose there is preferably formed upon the neck 2 as an integral part thereof an annular bead, which is preferably interrupted at intervals to form a series of lugs 3; but, if desired, the bottle-neck may be formed with only one such lug. The lugs 3 are formed so that they each have one face 3 projecting outwardly from the exterior of the bottleneck 2 to form an abutment, which prevents the disassociation of the receptacle 1 and hood 4 after the said receptacle and hood have been brought into proper relation, the

other faces 3* of the said lugs being prefer ably inclined to more readily permit the hood 4 to be slipped over the receptacle.

Incasing the receptacle 1 is a hood 4, which is formed in a single piece and which is preferably open at both ends, as shown. This hood may be made of any material which is sufliciently resilient to permit it to be forced over the lugs 3 of the bottle-neclg'as will be presently described; but it is preferred to form said hood of compressed paper-pulp or other compressed fibrous material, for when the hood is made from material such as this it offers an excellent protection against breakage of a frangible receptacle when such is'em ployed and also since the hood thus formed is not highly elastic renders it. impossible to remove the hood from the bottle Without tearing or mutilating the former.

It is preferred that the hood should correspond in configuration to the bottle or other receptacle, so thatit will form a closely-fitting casing therefor; but this may be otherwise, if desired, it being only'necessary that the said hood should closely fit the receptacle adjacent to the hood-engaging means with which the latteris provided. The hood 4 may be provided with a sight-opening, such as 4*, if desired.

That portion of the hood4 which is adjacent to the hood-retaining. faces 3 of the lugs 3 fits the enveloped'receptacle closely, in the present. instance being contracted to form the neck 5. The neck 5 of the hood is preferably extended to the full height of the receptacle in order to permit slots 6 for the reception of the lugs 3 to be formed therein and also to present a packing-ring 4* between the bottle and its closure, such packingring preventing leakage and also serving as a filler between the neck of the bottle and the depending fiange 7 a of the bottle-closure 7.

7 is the closure for the receptacle, and while it is illustrated in Fig. 6 as a simple cap which is crimped under the lugs 3 of the bottle, yet it is preferred to constructsuch closure as a sprinkler'of the form illustrated or any other usual or well-known construction serving the same purpose. This closure 7 is provided with an annular depending flange 7 which extends downwardly a sufficient distance to be crimped or turned under the lugs 3 of the receptacle and is preferably forced slightly into the hood. It is also preferred tofirmly press the flange 7 a of the closure against the packing-ring 4 and against the portions of the hood which lie between the perforations or slots 6 thereof.

The construction being substantially such as hereinbefore pointed out, the device will be assembled by inserting the receptacle 1 within the hood 4 through the open bottom of the latter until the openings 6 in the said I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is' l l. A device of the character indicated,

l comprising a receptacle, a closure for said receptacle, and a hood for said receptacle, said hood being retained on said receptacle by means of said closure.

2. A device of the character indicated,

comprising a receptacle, a unitary hood therefor, and a closure for said receptacle, said hood being secured to said receptacle both independently of and by means of said closure.

3. A device of the character indicated, comprising a receptacle provided With a plurality of lugs, and a hood having a plurality of apertures adapted to receive said lugs.

4. A device of the character indicated,

1 comprising a receptacle provided with a plurality of lugs, a hood having a plurality of a ertures adapted to receive said lugs, and a c osure for the receptacle engaging said lugs and said hood.

5. A device of the character indicated,

, comprising a receptacle provided with a lug having an inclined face, and a unitary hood having a portion Which closely fits the said receptacle adjacent to said lug, whereby the said hood is retained in position by said lug.

6. A device of the character indicated, comprising a receptacle, a hood therefor, and a closure forthe said receptacle, said hood and said receptacle being provided with interlocking means which revent their disassociation after having een brought into proper relation with each other, and said hood having a portion forming a packingring'which is interposed between the said re-' ceptacle'and itsclosure. v

' 7. A device of the character indicated, comprising a receptacle provided with means for preventing the removal of an incasing hood, an incasing hood which is adapted to engage the hood-retaining means with which the receptacle is provided, and a closure which is affixed to' said receptacle through the hood-retainin means thereof.

8. A device 0 the character indicated,

comprising a receptacle provided with a plurality of lugs each of which has an inclined face to permit the passage of a hood in one direction and a face extending across the path of said hood to prevent the movement of the latter in an opposite direction, a hood having a plurality of apertures to receive terposed between the said closure and the said lugs, and a closure for said receptacle said receptacle. 1o

having a depending portion Which engages In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature said hood and said lugs. in presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

9. A device of the character indicated, LUDWIG B. SCHENCK. comprising a receptacle, a hood incasing said Witnesses: receptacle, and a closure for said receptacle, FATZ W. HAWINGHAUSJ said hood having a packing-ring portion' in- ARTHUR W. JOWETT 

